Today’s TED O’clock focused on the absurd, but in a really fun way:
Charlie Todd: The Shared Experience of Absurdity
Here are some of the comments that were shared after the group watched the talk:
1) We all need to look up more and take notice of the things going on around us.
2) The scenarios shown could help us generate some new communication strategies and how we share information with others on campus, so that we don’t always inundate people with email (for example, having an Internet game called, “Where’s Weston?” and when you find Weston, he is providing a demonstration about a new piece of technology).
3) If something is important to you, you make time for it.
4) Photographing and videotaping work we do provide alternative ways for ITS: to tell its story to others.
5) Play is a good thing, and you don’t need a reason to do it. It is good to interject play into our daily lives, even (or sometimes especially) here at work.
I hope all who attended enjoyed this talk. If you have a favorite TED talk, please be sure to share it with me so we can potentially add it to the list!
Our next TED O’clock will be on Friday, January 22 in the Yalich Board Room of the Spencer Center (the Board of Trustees board room on the first floor)…I hope to see you there!
Happy New Year, everyone…I hope 2016 is our best year yet!
ITS:Always fun, never boring
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Petro
